Chapter 1370 - 1370: Vomiting Poisonous Insects
Xiao Xie didn't know the purpose of the Mu Ling, but holding this little bead in his hand, a faint medicinal fragrance continuously wafted into his nose, giving him a sense of indescribable comfort all over. After a while, he suddenly felt an overwhelming nausea, and before he could cover his mouth, he directly vomited with a "wa" sound.
Zou Huanglong was originally sitting next to him. When he saw Xiao Xie vomit, he quickly jumped up, "Oh my god, what happened? What's going on?"
Xiao Xie's wife hurried over as well. Seeing what Xiao Xie had vomited, she let out a piercing scream, completely terrified.
Zou Huanglong also saw clearly what Xiao Xie had thrown up, and his face turned deathly pale, causing him to instinctively step back. This was because what Xiao Xie vomited was not ordinary stomach content, but a heap of still wriggling small insects, including poisonous ones like centipedes and scorpions, crawling chaotically on the ground. Just looking at it made one's scalp tingle. Who would have thought that these things came out of a person's mouth? This is incredibly horrifying!
"Mr. Ye, what's happening here?" Zou Huanglong asked, his voice trembling.
Ye Qing shook his head; he didn't really know what was going on. However, he figured this must be something left behind by that sorcerer. It seemed that the sorcerer had left behind these poisonous insect eggs, cultivating these poisons inside the human body. Earlier, when Xiao Xie held the Mu Ling, it must have triggered these poisons to be vomited out.
Lately, the look of these poisonous insects was still in its juvenile form, not yet matured. It's really hard to imagine what kind of outcome it would be if these poisonous insects grew inside Xiao Xie's stomach. Undoubtedly, if left to grow, Xiao Xie would surely end up dead!
Xiao Xie vomited continuously for a while, eventually even throwing up blood, but after that, no more poisonous insects came out. It seemed that the poisons inside him had been purged. After vomiting, he looked utterly exhausted, collapsing to the ground, and said with a trembling voice, "What…what happened? What's going on?"
Ye Qing didn't respond. He took the Mu Ling from Xiao Xie's hand and handed it to Xiao Xie's wife, saying, "Hold on to it."
Xiao Xie's wife glanced at Xiao Xie, then the Mu Ling, and suddenly screamed and shook her head, "I don't want it, I don't want it, holding it makes you vomit those poisonous insects, I don't want it…"
She still thought that Xiao Xie vomiting those poisonous insects was because of the Mu Ling, not knowing that her body was being used as a breeding ground.
"If you don't vomit them out, you'll be eaten by these poisonous insects!" Ye Qing said sternly.
"Ah?" Zou Huanglong was startled and looked at Xiao Xie's wife in shock.
Xiao Xie's wife was dumbfounded for a while before finally taking the Mu Ling with trembling hands, her whole body shaking so much she could hardly stand.
"Mr. Ye, what exactly are these things?" Zou Huanglong asked, still in shock over today's events.
"Let's not talk about that now, first let's kill these poisonous insects!" Ye Qing found a chair and went over to crush all the still wriggling insects. These poisonous insects were certainly not ordinary, and leaving them alive would really be dangerous if anyone else came into contact with them.
Just as those insects were being crushed, Xiao Xie's wife suddenly let out a "wa" sound and vomited again, her condition mirroring Xiao Xie's, vomiting many still wriggling poisonous insects.
Looking at the ground full of poisonous insects, Zou Huanglong felt his scalp tingling, "What… what is this stuff? It's so disgusting!"
Ignoring him, Ye Qing took the Mu Ling from Xiao Xie's wife and gave it to the nanny to hold. As a result, the nanny, like the Xie couple, also vomited out a floorful of poisonous insects. It seemed that the three people living in this house all had these poisonous insects bred inside them.
Ye Qing took the Mu Ling from the nanny's hand and turned to look at Zou Huanglong, who was both surprised and repulsed, yet deeply shocked.
"What are you looking at?" Zou Huanglong felt a chill on his back under Ye Qing's gaze, "I...I don't have a problem, do I?"
"Try holding it!" Ye Qing handed Zou Huanglong the Mu Ling, saying gravely, "If there's no problem, none of this will happen. If there is and it's not resolved, you'll definitely die!"
Zou Huanglong was extremely reluctant to hold the Mu Ling, as he associated it with making people vomit those poisonous insects. Nonetheless, hearing the word 'die', he obediently took the Mu Ling, placing it in his palm, trembling, "I…I'm not from their family. This… doesn't really have anything to do with me, surely I won't have these insects, right…"
Ye Qing didn't answer him, instead simply grabbed a wooden board and crushed all the insects on the ground, leaving none behind. Meanwhile, as so much time passed without any incident, Zou Huanglong felt overjoyed.
"Mr. Ye, Mr. Ye, look, I'm fine!" Zou Huanglong exclaimed in excitement, "I'm fine, I'm fine, I didn't vomit, which means there are no poisonous insects in my stomach!"
Seeing that Zou Huanglong indeed had no symptoms, Ye Qing retrieved the Mu Ling. It appears that the sorcerer only placed these poisonous insects on the people in Xiao Xie's house, not on outsiders, so Zou Huanglong was spared.
At this moment, Xiao Xie and his wife, along with the nanny, gradually regained some composure. Xiao Xie helped his wife to stand up and looked at Ye Qing in panic, saying, "Mr. Ye, what... what is going on here? Why do we have these poisonous insects in our stomachs?"
"These are parasites, very dangerous." Ye Qing made up something offhandedly; he certainly couldn't explain the matter of sorcery to them since they definitely wouldn't be able to accept it.
"Parasites?" Everyone's expression changed; they had heard of parasites, but these horrifying and disgusting ones were indeed something they had never seen before.
Ye Qing said sternly, "Gather up these things, bring out all the edible items in the house, and none of it can be eaten anymore!"
After such an incident, of course, Xie and his wife dared not eat anything anymore, and quickly went back indoors to gather the food in their house. The two of them, together with the nanny, packed three full bags and brought them out.
"Mr. Ye, should we throw these away now!" Xiao Xie said nervously.
"How can you throw them away?" Ye Qing said urgently, "If you throw them out and someone picks them up and eats them, it would be a big disaster. Find some gasoline and burn all these things!"
"Alright, alright." Xiao Xie did not dare to delay and quickly ran into the courtyard, extracting some gasoline from his own car. Then, he took those food items outside, poured gasoline on them, and burned them all, without leaving a single bit.
Inside the house, the nanny also cleaned up all the poison insect corpses on the ground, and threw them on the bonfire, burning them together, leaving no trace. Such an incident scared the three of them to their cores, and when dealing with it, none dared to hesitate for a moment.
A full table of dishes was thrown away earlier, so Ye Qing distributed a bag of food Ding Lianshun had brought over to a few people.
Holding the food, Xiao Xie's wife was still somewhat hesitant; the earlier incident had scarred her mentally regarding food.
"Go ahead and eat, these are safe." Ye Qing reassured, and he himself began to eat from those things. Although these items were brought by Ding Lianshun, Ye Qing was not worried; Ding Lianshun definitely would not poison these, because he had to ensure Ye Qing's absolute safety.
Besides, Ye Qing was holding the Mu Ling; even if Ding Lianshun did poison these items, they couldn't affect Ye Qing at all.
Xiao Xie grabbed a few biscuits to eat, suddenly his face changed, and he exclaimed urgently, "No, my son... my son has a lot of food there too..."
Only then did the people inside remember that Xiao Xie's son's bedside was piled with food, and the son had been continuously eating these things almost non-stop. Earlier when Xiao Xie and them were gathering food from the house, they forgot the food in his son's room, only now did they remember.
Everyone quickly ran into the room, Xiao Xie's son was still sitting by the bed, devouring mantou, and a lot of the food nearby had already been consumed.
"Can't eat it anymore, none of these things can be eaten!" Xiao Xie rushed over to pack up the food beside the bed. Just as he was about to turn and leave, he was caught by his son's hand grabbing his clothes.
"Give me, wu wu, give me food, I want to eat, wu wu wu..." His son cried as he stuffed mantou into his mouth, crying for more food.
Xiao Xie's face was full of anxiety; he looked up towards Ye Qing, truly not knowing what to do.
Ye Qing didn't know what to do either; this kind of sorcery, he had never encountered before and was unsure if there was something peculiar about it.
"Let him eat!" At this moment, a voice came from the window, it was Ding Lianshun's voice.
Everyone quickly turned to look and saw there was already a person leaning on the window, it was Ding Lianshun. He was watching the child in the room with interest, saying, "These foods don't have a problem, the sorcerer wouldn't put other things in these foods, or else it would affect the Great Food Descent's effect and consequently affect the formation of the Living Corpse!"
It was evident that Ding Lianshun had quite an understanding of sorcery. Upon hearing his words, Ye Qing's heart was also calmed, nodding, "Mr. Xie, don't worry, let the child eat."
Xiao Xie was now obedient to Ye Qing's words, and hearing Ye Qing say so, he returned the food to its place. Seeing the food returning, the child stopped crying and continued to eat ravenously.
Zou Huanglong, upon hearing Ding Lianshun's words earlier, was completely puzzled, asking curiously, "Mr. Ye, earlier... earlier, what was this master talking about, stealing techniques or Living Corpses, what exactly are those things? And what does Great Food Descent mean?"